For your protection, the proposed legislation expressly states persons providing interior decorative services may provide “services such as assistance in selection of surface materials, window treatments, wall coverings, paint, floor coverings, surface-mounted fixtures, cabinetry, or loose furniture and furnishings where the use, application, or installation of such materials, treatments, coverings, fixtures, or furnishings are not subject to regulation under applicable building or life-safety codes”, may “coordinate the installation of such personal property or fixtures as part of a sale or in the furtherance of a sale or prospective sale of goods or services to the public or trade” and may “provide computer-aided or other drawings, provided that those drawings are for materials lists”. These are the same services that Interior Decorators are legally allowed to provide now under current the architectural licensing law.

The proposed legislation states “(t)his act does not prohibit an individual certified or otherwise qualified or approved by a non-profit professional society from using a term or title copyrighted or otherwise protected under law by the certifying organization so long as the use does not connote registration as an “interior designer".”

Similarly, the proposed legislation states that nothing “shall be construed as prohibiting or restricting the use of the terms “certified kitchen designer” or “certified bathroom designer".”